Connector for accumulator-plates.



UNITED STATES I EFTCE.

PATENT GEORGE A. WASHBURN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNEASSIGNMENTS, TO THE AMERICAN MOTOR CARRIAGE COMPANY, OF

CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

CONNECTOR FOR ACCUMULATOR-PLATES.

riPECIFICATI ON forming part of Letters Patent No. 723,791, dated March24, 1903.

Original application filed July 28,1902 Serial No. 117,313.

T0 ctZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE A. WASHBURN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Connectors forAccumulator-Plates, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This application is a division of an application for improvements inelectric accumulators filed J nly 28, 1902.

It relates to connectors such as are used to join the positive-poleplates with the negativepole plates of adjacent cells ofa storagebattery or accumulator.

A principal object has been to provide a device for this purpose whichis very simple in" form and which affords means for maintaining theadjacent cells in proper relation to each other.

The invention consists in a certain construction of parts, to be morefully described hereinafter and definitely set forth in the claims.

In the drawings, which fully illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is a planshowing several cells arranged to constitute a battery the plates ofwhich are joined by this connector, the end cells being only partiallyshown, as indicated. Fig. 2 is an elevation of my connector, a partbeing shown in section, as will appear.

Referring to the parts by letters, A represents the connector, and Brepresents the individual cells constituting the storage bat: tery. Aswill appear from Fig. 1, these cells are arranged side by side, therebeing as many of them as desired, and, as indicated, they aresubstantially rectangular receptacles. As will appear from theconstruction of the connector A, it is adapted to be placed upon theupper edges of two adjacent or abu tting sides of two adjoining cellsinthe manner shown in Fig. l.

The connector consists, substantially, of a back or body a, adapted tobe disposed 1ongitudinally with the upper edges of adjacent Divided andthis application filed October 6, 1902. Serial (No model.)

cells, and it is of suitable thickness for carrying the current betweentwo adjoining cells and provided at its extremities withdownwardly-projecting arms a a", disposed on 0pposite sides of the backa. surface or edge a is formed, passing continuously from end to end ofthe connector and constituting the lower edge of theback a, as willreadily be understood. At their lower extremitiesthese arms areprovided, respectively, with laterally-projecting heads a at, having,respectively, vertical openings o a correspondingwith the plates of thebattery. The openings a are adapted to receive the lugs of thenegative-pole plates,which project upward through them and which may bese- .curedthereto in any suitable manner.

The openings a are arranged intermediate of the openings a", asrepresented, and are adapted to receive the lugs of the positivepoleplates, to which the head a is attached. The upper edge of the backis'preferably rounded at the ends, as indicated at a This connectorenables a suitable number of cells to be quickly and compactly arrangedin a battery in the manner described, and it should be observed that theform of the back a is well adapted to resist the weight of thebattery-plates.

What I clainris 1. As a new article of manufacture, a connector foraccumulator-plates, said connector comprising a member adapted to restupon the adjacent edges of abutting cells and having downward extensionsadapted to lie against the inner sides of said cells, substantially asdescribed.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a connector for accumulator-platesconsisting of a member adapted to rest upon the adjacent edges ofabutting cells and having downward extensions within said cellsadaptedto connect with the plates of said cells, and means In thismanner a carried by said connector for maintaining adjoining cells in afixed relation, substantially as set forth.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a connector for accumulator-plates,consisting of a member adapted to rest upon the adjacent edges ofabutting cells, said member having a downward extension at eachextremity and on opposite sides thereof, said downward extensions havingintegral heads projecting therefrom, adapted to connect with the plates,substantially as set forth.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a connector comprising a deep flatmember-disposed longitudinally above the adjacent edges of two adjacentcells and having downward exl l l tensions lying against the walls ofthe said adjacent cells, said downward extensions being adapted toconnect with the plates of said cells, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

GEORGE A. WAsnnURN.

Witnesses:

F. D. AMMEN, E. L, PARDU.

